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Now that there are finally some reviews on here…

If I owned Kingdom Hearts, the majority of organizations members in COM would still be alive. But I don't, and, as far as a I know, they are still dead.

Phase 2: Uncertain Bonds

It had been about a week since Axel showed his face to Sora and the others. There hadn't been a trace of him since.

Sora was with Donald and Goofy traveling in Wonderland, trying to find some leads on the Organization.

While walking through the forest of giant mushrooms and flowers, Donald seemed especially tense.

"What's the matter?" Sora questioned.

"Don't you find it strange, Sora?" Donald asked.

"Find what strange?" Sora replied, a bit confused.

"THAT WE'RE NOT BEING ATTACKED BY HEARTLESS!" Donald screamed at him, jumping up quite high into the air.

"Gawrsh, now that you mention it..." Goofy added, looking around to make sure, "I haven't seen a single Heartless since we got here."

"They're just scared of me, that's all," Sora remarked with a toothy smile. But he knew the truth, of course. They weren't going to attack their master.

He and the others had just entered the room with the huge table. Only, they weren't exactly together when they entered. Sora ended up on the ceiling, Donald was on the right wall, and Goofy was on the left wall.

"Huh?" Donald asked as he looked around and realized he was standing sideways. "Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?" Then he surveyed the room and found out Sora and Goofy were on completely different places than he was. "What are you guys doing over there!" he yelled.

"Gawrsh..." Goofy stated as he looked over at Donald having a fit, then and Sora who seemed more bewildered than anything else. "This didn't happen last time."

"This is Wonderland," Sora said dryly. "Since when does anything make sense here?"

"Not like anything been making sense lately..."

"Allright guys, let's try going back through the door we came through and then go back through it again," Sora suggested.

Donald and Goofy nodded in agreement.

With a little effort, they managed to reenter the door they came through. A few moments passed away, then Sora arrives through a door on the right side of the wall, Donald came through a door on the floor, and Goofy entered through a door on the ceiling.

They all scanned the area and only to discover that they were still on different sides of the room.

After they all did some grumbling and sighing, they exited through the doors they had come from. This time Sora was on the floor, Goofy was the right side of the wall, and Donald was on the ceiling. They glanced at each other, let their shoulders sag, and went back through the doors.

And so this went on for about an hour, until...

"QUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Donald screamed and jumped around in a frustrated fury. "This is pointless!"

Sora was back on the ceiling for the fifth time, Donald was on the left wall for the seventh time, and Goofy was on the floor for the first time.

"Yeah..." Sora replied, crossing his arms and staring at the floor, or ceiling, actually. "Look, I'll just meet up with you guys somewhere else in a little bit, okay?" he advised. "Maybe then we'll all have our feet on the ground by then."

"Sounds like a plan to me, ayuck," Goofy responded.

"Allright..." Donald replied.

"Well, see you guys later then," Sora said with a grin and went through the door on the other side of the ceiling.

When Sora set his foot outside of the door, he found himself in a dark wood. He approached an odd-looking patch of growth only to see it break up into several different fuzzy beings and run away. He ambled along a crimson carpet laid along the ground. Something landed on his shoulders and suddenly his vision seemed to be quite unfocused. When he lifted whatever it was off of him and his eyesight was normal. He took a look at the thing and saw it was a creature, shaped like a pair of glasses with a sharp point at the nosepiece. The part of it that would normally go behind the ears were its legs. Sora gently put it on a nearby branch and continued on his way along the crimson path. Along the way Sora saw many other crazy life forms. There were vultures that were much like umbrellas, a bird with a mirror as part of his head, and shoes that walked by themselves.

Eventually, Sora thought he might be reaching someplace brighter when he encountered the dog with a brush for a head. It was erasing the path before him, leaving not even a red speck to follow through the shadows. When Sora wouldn't move, it stopped, looked around him, and walked past him, wiping away the path he'd used to come this far.

Sora slumped down on a large rock nearby. "Ah, great. Now how am I going to get back?" he asked to no one in particular.

"Why are you so concerned about those fools?" a voice asked from the darkness around him.

Sora shot up and whipped his head around. "Where are you!" he asked angrily.

"Why, I'm right here," Pete answered, stepping out of the concealing shadows of the forest.

"I really ain't in the mood for you today, Pete," Sora growled, getting up with Keyblade in hand to face Pete.

"Why do you want to fight me? I'm only your humble servant," Pete replied, backing away with a sheepish smile.

Sora eyes narrowed and he slowly relaxed his battle pose. "What do you mean?" Sora asked, though he already had a pretty good idea what he was talking about.

"Why? Why, because you're the Master of Darkness. What other reason do I need?" Pete responded, standing his ground.

"How about being my friend?" Sora hissed. "I have no interests in minions 'cause I have no interest in being the Master of Darkness."

"And what makes you think you can just turn down your destiny?" Pete asked

"'Cause I don't feel like being the Master of Darkness," Sora said. "And I don't want to fight against my friends." Sora turned his back on Pete and began to walk away.

Pete was silent for a moment. A sly grin snuck up on his face.

"What makes you think they'll want to be friends with you when they find out about that little secret of yours?" Pete questioned.

Sora stopped in his tracks.

"They'll turn on you, you know, when they find out," Pete continued, walking towards Sora. "Then they won't be so nice."

Sora said nothing.

"Oh, come now, you know it's gonna happen," Pete continued, pacing a bit. "So why do you keep hanging out with them?"

"They're my friends..." Sora said in dull tone, his eyes on the ground, his back still turned to Pete.

"But if they won't appreciate you for who you are, then how can they really be your friends?" Pete asked. "I mean, what good is a friendship if you have to hide the truth?"

"What do you know about friendship?" Sora growled.

"My apologies, I shouldn't question His Majesty's-"

"Shut up!" Sora snapped, swinging his Keyblade at Pete, missing him by only a few inches.

"If you want to be that way, fine!" Pete retorted. He walked away for quite a distance, pausing to yell "Once you've decided to face the facts, you can call me anytime!" Then he went out of Sora's sight.

Sora grumbled some as strolled quietly away in the other direction.

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"Sora!" Donald and Goofy exclaimed as they rushed towards Sora, avoiding bumping into all the giant flowers.

"Hey guys!'' Sora shouted back as waved to them. "Over there!"

"Gawrsh, we were worried," Goofy added "When you didn't show up, we thought something might've happened to you."

"Oh, nah, I just got lost," Sora said with a grin, then he stared off into the distance.

"Sora?" Donald asked with a concerned look on his face.

"...Guys?"

"Yeah?" they both replied.

"You guys...you guys will always be my friends, right?" Sora asked quietly.

"Whaaaat?" Donald replied. "Of course we will!"

"No matter what?" Sora added.

"Of course no matter what!" Donald snapped back.

Sora smiled. "Just checking."

But as they made their way back to their Gummi ships, Sora still bore a worried look on his face.

Well….there you go. Review please, unless you want to leave Sora hanging in anxiety forever. And you don't want that, do you?

Cya!